Sexual Rights Framework: Autonomy, Equality, Consent, and Dignity
A sexual rights framework evaluates sexuality through principles such as autonomy, consent, equality, privacy, health, dignity, and freedom from coercion or discrimination.
A sexual rights framework evaluates sexuality through principles such as autonomy, consent, equality, privacy, health, dignity, and freedom from coercion or discrimination.
Bodily integrity is the principle that a person’s body should be protected from unwanted interference, harm, exposure, or alteration and respected through consent and autonomy.
Reproductive justice connects reproductive rights with healthcare access, bodily autonomy, family support, and social conditions that shape meaningful reproductive choice.
Sexual citizenship describes people’s rights, recognition, access, autonomy, and responsibilities in relation to sexuality, relationships, healthcare, privacy, and social participation.
Body autonomy is the right to make meaningful decisions about one’s own body, including touch, healthcare, sexuality, reproduction, privacy, and physical boundaries.
Embodiment is the lived experience of the body, including sensation, movement, body image, sexuality, identity, pleasure, discomfort, and bodily awareness.
Body autonomy for disabled people means having meaningful control over decisions involving touch, healthcare, sexuality, reproduction, privacy, and personal assistance.
Rights-based sex education connects sexuality and sexual health with dignity, bodily autonomy, consent, equality, privacy, and access to accurate information.
Trauma-informed care recognizes the effects of trauma and provides support through safety, choice, respect, informed consent, and reduced risk of retraumatization.
A sexual boundary violation occurs when someone crosses, pressures, or ignores another person’s limits involving sexual activity, touch, privacy, or communication.